WASHINGTON— The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today acknowledged for the first time that three of the nation's most-used neonicotinoid pesticides pose significant risks to commercial honeybees.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today it is downlisting the Florida manatee from “endangered” to “threatened” — despite hundreds of manatees still dying each year ...

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today announced that it will put on hold the scientific peer review of its proposal to remove protections for gray wolves across the country while it ...

Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons/Tiago J. G. Fernandes. Photos are available for media use. “Monarchs are in a deadly free fall and the threats they face are now so large in scale that Endangered ...

WASHINGTON— The highly secretive arm of the U.S. Department of Agriculture known as Wildlife Services killed more than 3.2 million animals during fiscal year 2015, according to new data released by ...

SAN FRANCISCO— Today the Obama administration denied Endangered Species Act protection to the American pika, a small, mountain-dwelling mammal that is on the frontlines of global warming-driven ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity and several renowned scientists and herpetologists, including E.O. Wilson and Thomas Lovejoy, filed a formal petition today seeking Endangered Species ...

WASHINGTON— The Trump administration’s 2020 budget proposal contains an unprecedented $2 billion (14 percent) cut for the Department of the Interior and a $2.8 billion (31 percent) cut for the ...

Eastern newt photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons/Patrick Coin. This photo is available for media use. “The introduction of devastating animal diseases — like the pathogens that have wiped out millions of ...

WASHINGTON— The yearly count of monarch butterflies overwintering in Mexico, released today, shows a decrease of 53% from last year’s count and is well below the threshold at which government ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— A study published today in the journal PeerJ shows the Endangered Species Act has saved roughly 99 percent of protected wildlife since its creation in 1973, demonstrating the law has ...

WASHINGTON— The Trump administration today denied protections to the eastern hellbender, instead protecting a distinct population segment of hellbenders that makes up just 1 percent of the highly ...